Turkish President Recep Tayyp Erdogan has announced that an agreement has been reached between Moscow and Kiev, mediated by Turkey, on the grain blocked in Ukrainian ports due to the war.
Ankara explained that the signing of the agreement should take place in the next few hours, effectively unblocking exports, a news also welcomed by the United States.
On the fighting front, in the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which is under Russian control, the forces of Moscow would like to store their "entire military arsenal". According to reports from Ukrainska Pravd, Energoatom, a state-owned company that supervises nuclear plants in the country, would have made it known. The Kremlin troops would in fact have asked for access to the engine room of the first, second and third units.
But precisely on Zaporizhzhia, Moscow warns: "If you hit the reactors or the cooling plant, you risk blowing up half of Europe ", says Yevgeny Balitsky, the head of the Russian civil-military administration of the region in southern Ukraine where he is located the nuclear power plant.
Meanwhile, the European Union has confirmed the fifth tranche, worth 500 million euros, of military aid to Ukraine.
On gas, on the other hand, the Kremlin accuses the European Union: "The technical problems with the flows through Nord Stream 1 are caused by EU sanctions", says spokesman Dmitri Peskov.
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Moscow-Kiev agreement on wheat
"Russia-Ukraine wheat agreement, signature tomorrow". Erdogan's government announces it.
